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PHX

TD GARDEN

1FINAL3

December 8, 1997

NYR

Scoring Summary

1st Period

Adam Graves (7) (pp)

Brian Leetch (11), Wayne Gretzky (21)

1-0 NYR

Score

03:31

Time

3rd Period

Alexander Karpovtsev (1)

Brian Skrudland (3), Mike Keane (7)

2-0 NYR

Score

09:20

Time

Jocelyn Lemieux (1)

Cliff Ronning (12), Mike Gartner (5)

2-1 NYR

Score

12:56

Time

Vladimir Vorobiev (1)

Pat LaFontaine (20), Alexander Karpovtsev (6)

3-1 NYR

Score

14:31

Time

Penalties

1st Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	03:22	Jayson More – interference (2 min)
	11:28	Jim McKenzie – hooking-obstruction (2 min)
	14:04	Ulf Samuelsson – holding-obstruction (2 min)

2nd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	03:26	Johan Lindbom – holding-obstruction (2 min)
	06:57	Brian Skrudland – tripping-obstruction (2 min)
	13:33	Gerald Diduck – high-sticking (2 min)

3rd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	06:22	Eric Cairns – tripping-obstruction (2 min)
	10:26	Mike Stapleton – kneeing (2 min)
	17:33	Alexander Karpovtsev – charging (2 min)
	17:33	Alexander Karpovtsev – roughing (2 min)
	17:33	Jayson More – roughing (2 min)

NYR – Skaters
#	Player	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	1G	OTG	GWG	ENG	S	FO	FO%	Shifts	TOI	Hits	BLK	GV	TK
2	Brian Leetch	D	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	35	30:58	1	2	5	3
5	Ulf Samuelsson	D	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	31	20:17	3	4	2	0
9	Adam Graves	L	1	0	1	-1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	0/0	0.00%	26	24:06	0	0	2	1
12	Mike Keane	R	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	28	19:56	2	1	3	4
15	Darren Langdon	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	2	01:20	0	0	0	0
16	Pat LaFontaine	C	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	16	16:38	0	0	0	2
17	Kevin Stevens	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	5	03:18	1	0	1	0
20	Brian Skrudland	C	0	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	27	15:36	1	3	1	0
21	Johan Lindbom	L	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	25	15:15	1	1	3	1
23	Jeff Beukeboom	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	27	23:09	4	2	3	3
25	Alexander Karpovtsev	D	1	1	2	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0/0	0.00%	29	19:36	1	6	2	3
27	Alex Kovalev	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	20	20:31	2	0	2	4
29	Eric Cairns	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	13	08:25	4	1	2	0
32	Mike Eastwood	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	16	09:28	0	0	1	3
33	Bruce Driver	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	18	13:17	0	1	1	2
37	Tim Sweeney	R	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	17	13:12	0	0	2	3
39	Vladimir Vorobiev	R	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	18	13:27	0	0	3	3
99	Wayne Gretzky	C	0	1	1	-1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	24	21:01	0	0	4	1

NYR – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
31	Jason Muzzatti						0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	00:00
35	Mike Richter	★	W				27	28	1	1	0	0	.964	1.00	60:00

PHX – Skaters
#	Player	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	1G	OTG	GWG	ENG	S	FO	FO%	Shifts	TOI	Hits	BLK	GV	TK
4	Gerald Diduck	D	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	29	21:42	2	0	3	0
6	Jayson More	D	0	0	0	-1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	27	20:18	1	0	0	2
7	Keith Tkachuk	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	24	19:59	1	0	2	0
14	Mike Stapleton	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	15	08:32	0	0	0	1
15	Craig Janney	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	21	17:17	0	0	1	0
16	Brad Isbister	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	20	21:57	3	0	1	1
18	Chad Kilger	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	9	04:39	1	0	2	1
21	Bob Corkum	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	18	13:39	0	0	0	3
22	Mike Gartner	R	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	24	19:51	0	1	2	1
24	Michel Petit	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	16	10:04	4	0	3	0
26	John Slaney	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	25	21:20	2	1	1	2
27	Teppo Numminen	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	31	27:39	0	2	1	1
32	Jocelyn Lemieux	R	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	8	05:14	1	0	2	0
33	Jim McKenzie	L	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	22	13:05	2	0	1	1
36	Juha Ylonen	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	18	12:06	2	0	1	1
77	Cliff Ronning	C	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0/0	0.00%	18	17:06	1	1	3	0
92	Rick Tocchet	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	21	20:25	0	1	2	1
97	Jeremy Roenick	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	26	21:59	2	0	3	2

PHX – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
28	Jimmy Waite						0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	00:00
35	Nikolai Khabibulin	★	L				26	29	3	2	1	0	.897	3.14	57:19

NYR

PHX

Game Stats

3	Goals	1
29	Shots	28
25.0% (1/4)	Power Play	0.0% (0/6)
12	Penalty Minutes	10
20	Hits	22
21	Blocks	6
37	Giveaways	28
33	Takeaways	17

Goals by Period

	1	2	3	T
	0	0	1	1
	1	0	2	3

Shots by Period

	1	2	3	T
	9	11	8	28
	11	6	12	29

Season Series: 1-0-1

PHX 1

NYR 3

FINALBoxscoreDEC 8

PHX 1

NYR 1

FINAL OTBoxscoreFEB 7

As of December 8, 1997

All-Time vs PHX

Overall: 3-0-0
At NYR: 2-0-0

Last 10 vs PHX

Overall: 3-0-0
At NYR: 2-0-0